TEENAGER Ashleigh Pedley is distraught after two years' vital exam work went up in smoke in a blaze.

The fire ripped though the roof of an extension of Ashleigh's home in Baginton Road, Styvechale, Coventry, early today.

Ashleigh lost two years of work which had been stored on a computer in a study.

The 16-year-old pupil at Princethorpe College said: "All my GCSE notes over the past two years have just been destroyed and the deadline for submitting coursework is at Easter.

"I just don't know what I'm going to do."

Fire chiefs believe the blaze had been smouldering all night as a result of a faulty plug.

Ashleigh's 15-year-old brother James roused her and their mother, Sharron at 5am after waking to see flames shooting through the roof of the extension, which is directly outside his bedroom window.

James, who also attends Princethorpe College, said: "I could hear explosions going on downstairs and when I looked through the window I saw all the flames. I just ran to wake up my mum and my sister and we grabbed the dogs and got out."

Mrs Pedley, aged 42, feared the damage could add up to #35,000.

She was today sifting through the debris to rescue charred family photographs before going to Coventry Airport to pick up her husband who was flying back from a skiing holiday in Austria.

She said: "Tony did ring up before boarding the plane but I just couldn't tell him.

"I can't believe how much damage has been done - and the awful thing is that our dog Bonnie was trying to tell me all last night."

The West Highland white terrier slept in Mrs Pedley's bedroom and woke her constantly throughout the night. She just thought the dog was being restless.

Mrs Pedley said: "Although we'd kept a garage door on the front of the house, this was a proper two-storey extension which the children used as a den and study.

"As well as the computer, it had my son's drum kit and lots of furniture."